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2007 Nov 14
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Connecting to Oracle from an Intel Mac -- arch. conflicts
...acle InstantClient is a PPC-only library. You can''t get the
default Ruby install to talk to it, since on the Intel Mac it always
runs in native mode, not in Rosetta. So to get around that I used ditto
to extract the PPC version of the Ruby binary. In /usr/bin I''ve now got
"ruby_ppc" and "ruby_fat" with a ln from "ruby" to "ruby_ppc" -- so from
anywhere in the system, if you call "ruby" you get the PPC version.
Believe it or not, this is sufficient to get Rails to talk to Oracle: my
apps connect to the Oracle database, and it'...